Chapter 109: Spells Applied to Life

Deep mountain Daoist temple, full sky of wind and snow.

In the room, a stove was lit. The Daoist was roasting fire, eating persimmon cakes, and the fox beside him was also holding a persimmon cake, staining the fur on its hand yellow and red.

Lin Jue glanced at this fox from time to time.

This fox saw that the white fur on its hand was stained yellow and red by the persimmon cake, which looked a bit like the color it had before. It was visibly stunned for a moment, probably thinking that it had turned back, until it thought of its legs being black before, and saw the persimmon cake in front of it, it reacted.

So it raised its claws and licked them in front of it.

"..."

Lin Jue couldn't help but feel helpless, and said to it: "You are a fox, not a cat. Those outside are cats..."

When the fox heard this, it couldn't help but raise its head and stare at him.

The fourth senior brother was right—

For Lin Jue, Fuyao is a very good object to practice communicating with birds and beasts.

Not only because Fuyao was raised by Lin Jue since it was small, and the two have a deep relationship, Lin Jue does not need to reach the state of "harmony with the living things of heaven and earth" in the "method of gathering beasts and adjusting birds" to communicate with it, but also because Fuyao is far smarter than the ordinary birds and beasts on the mountain, and its thoughts are more complex. In this kind of communication, more complex information can be transmitted.

But it is not able to speak after all.

Even if it may have initially possessed the intelligence to speak human words, it has not yet refined the horizontal bone.

Lin Jue can only understand the general meaning.

But it is also as the fourth senior brother said—

A few percent depend on spells, and a few percent depend on guessing.

Guessing can also be said to be feeling.

As for this proportion, it only depends on personal good fortune.

Having said that, isn't the communication between people also a few percent depending on listening and a few percent depending on guessing?

The fox looked at him for a long time, clearly stunned.

"Ying?"

"You are indeed a fox, not a cat."

"Woo?"

"We are not foxes, we are Daoists."

"Ying?"

"You are not a Daoist, you are a fox."

"Ying?"

"This kind of yours is called a fox."

The Daoist in the room was like talking to himself. If people at the foot of the mountain saw it, they would also feel strange.

However, the Daoist was always patient.

It was the fox that was confused by him, holding the persimmon cake and lying on the ground for a long time, as if thinking, but it didn't think of a result, so it had to shake its head and wag its tail, abandon distracting thoughts, and continue to lower its head to eat the persimmon cake.

One person and one fox often looked outside the house again.

Outside the house was north wind blowing snow, the sound of wind sobbing, and in the middle there was the sound of sword breaking the air, the sound of moving, and the panting of a woman.

The junior sister was dancing sword in the courtyard.

Compared to the graceful and soft sword dance she learned with the third senior brother in the first half of this year, the sword moves at this time are stronger in strength, and the rhythm has changed. It seems to be the most basic moves, but undoubtedly it is much sharper.

Now both of them are learning the Green Dan Sword.

It's just that the two have different strengths, and their flexibility is different. After a few months, they gradually learned their own styles.

Lin Jue wants to be more open and closed.

The junior sister is influenced by the sword dance taught by the third senior brother before, or it may be an active fusion. The sword moves and body methods are more elegant and flexible, which can be considered her compensation for her own strength.

At this time, in the courtyard outside the door, the woman shuttled through the full sky of wind and snow with the slippery ground. The sword tip pierced the goose feathers, and crossed two zhang in an instant. No matter who was in front, I'm afraid they would have been stabbed to death by her.

The woman stopped the momentum immediately, combined her waist and abdomen, leaned back and turned, and after sweeping the sword, she instantly stabbed a sword behind her again. The strength of this sword was so great that the long sword was collapsed with a sword sound.

This is good, if there is anyone behind, I'm afraid they would have been stabbed to death.

Lin Jue scratched his head, not knowing why this junior sister was working so hard, practicing sword even on a snowy day.

And she is immovable every day.

Just like working on building roads, no matter the strong wind and heavy rain, thunder and snow, even if it hails, she has to go.

Lin Jue even suspected that she would stop quietly to practice sword in the middle of building roads.

It made him feel some pressure.

Shook his head and continued to eat cakes and watch the sword.

Compared to this, Lin Jue still likes the sword dance in the first half of the year, rolling with peach blossoms and pine flowers, the person is like a fairy floating, and the sword is like dancing with the wind, which is more ornamental.

In the sound of sword dance, the human world opened in spring.

Once the snow accumulated, all things were full of vitality.

The spring breeze blew the peach blossoms and rhododendrons from the back mountain into the Daoist temple, and with the wind danced by the long sword, they flew in the temple.

"The back mountain is blooming."

Lin Jue walked into the courtyard and looked up at the back.

The junior sister had changed from the heavy cotton clothes in winter to a lighter Daoist robe, stepping forward and stabbing, the immortal opened the way, and the sword edge felt cold even at a distance from Lin Jue.

And she heard the senior brother speak, so she stopped, and closed the sword with an outer sword flower. Her face was red and flushed, and she said seriously to Lin Jue:

"Yes, it's full, and I can pick peach blossoms for the third senior brother to brew wine again. After the peach blossoms bloom, it will be pine flowers."

"Why are you so diligent?"

"Anyway, there is nothing to do." The junior sister said, "When will we do something delicious like last year and sit on the mountain to enjoy the flowers?"

You don't look like you have nothing to do every day.

Lin Jue thought so, but looked at the pine needles that had just grown on the ancient pine in the courtyard.

"Delicious things..."

"Yes, just like last year!"

"Let me think about what to do."

"!"

"By the way, junior sister, do you know what pine needles are for?"

"What for? Can it stab people?" The junior sister said, and thought again, "I seem to have heard the second senior brother or the fifth senior brother say that if you can't see at night, you can boil water with pine needles, and drinking it can cure night blindness."

"Close."

"What?"

"If you

"Water with air and bubbles?"

"It's very delicious," Lin Jue said, unable to help but smile. "Adding a little sugar and honey makes it even better, especially suitable for summer."

The junior sister was initially a bit doubtful, unable to imagine what water with air and bubbles tasted like, but she had unconditional trust in her senior brother when it came to eating and drinking. Seeing her senior brother's eyes light up, hers did too.

"Leave it to me!"

She even became a bit excited.

"Third Third Third Shixiong or Fifth Third Third Shixiong must have this kind of jar. I'll do it!" the junior sister said. "I also know where there is honey. I'll go steal some!"

"Don't get stung!"

"It doesn't matter!"

It wasn't that she couldn't, but that it didn't matter.

Hearing this, how could Lin Jue feel at ease letting her go alone? Seeing that she had already gone out the door while speaking, he hurriedly followed.

Is this little girl really so swift and decisive?

The two shuttled through the forest, and the fox leaped among the mountains.

Not long after, the two had already arrived in front of a cliff on Tianmen Peak. The junior sister pointed to a large beehive hanging on the stone wall above her head and said to him, "That's where the honey is."

"How do you know?"

"I passed by when I was building the road," the junior sister explained, then asked him worriedly, "Third Shixiong brother, your 'Beast Gathering and Bird Taming' is completely mastered, right?"

"Mastered it long ago."

"Then I'm relieved," the junior sister nodded. "I'll climb up and steal it in a moment. If I'm discovered, they probably won't sting you."

"That doesn't work like that."

"Why?"

This spell is only useful when the Daoist has no evil intentions toward the creatures of the mortal world. Coming to steal someone's honey now, how could one delusionally rely on this peaceful spell to keep them from stinging you?

Lin Jue was too lazy to explain to her, waved his hand and said:

"Don't worry about so much, you go take it, we'll catch it below, be careful, don't fall down."

"Don't worry!"

After the junior sister finished speaking, she rolled up her sleeves and walked toward the stone wall.

The stone wall was nearly vertical and difficult to climb.

However, the junior sister was now extremely good at climbing mountains.

She first found cracks and protrusions on the stone wall, climbed up a section quickly, and after that, there was nothing to borrow force from, so she dug out points for leverage on the mountain herself, and before long, she reached the front of the beehive.

The junior sister looked down and made eye contact with the person and the fox below, made a gesture, and took out a kitchen knife from her bosom.

She cut down with one knife!

Below, Lin Jue held a package made of banana leaves and caught it accurately.

With such a big commotion, how could they not be discovered?

Lin Jue immediately heard the sound from above.

"Buzz buzz buzz……"

? C〇

The sound was getting louder and louder.

Lin Jue looked up—

The bees swarmed out, and a dark cloud had already appeared near the beehive, while his own junior sister maintained the posture of hanging on the stone wall, her body rapidly petrified, and soon she turned into a stone sculpture hanging on the wall.

"Buzz buzz……"

The bees circled around her, even standing on her body, and finding nowhere to sting, they immediately flew toward the bottom.

"?"

Lin Jue couldn't help but look at the fox.

The fox also turned its head to look at him.

"What are you waiting for? Why don't you run?"

"Woo?"

"Just run!"

Lin Jue urged Fuyao to leave, but he didn't run himself, just put down the honey and dived into a big tree nearby.

There were ancient trees and big trees everywhere on Mount Yishan.

The Daoist's figure disappeared immediately.

This could also be considered an application of a spell.

The good news is that Lin Jue's practice of the Wood Escape technique has now achieved some success, and he can breathe inside the tree, and this spell consumes almost no magical power. Theoretically, he can stay in the tree for as long as he wants.

However, his hearing and vision after hiding in the tree are still blurred, and he can only see blurred shadows and hear blurred sounds. He can see and hear big things and movements, but not small ones. In this regard, he still needs longer practice.

So he didn't know what happened outside either.

He could only hear extremely faint sounds, buzzing, as if coming from a very far place, or as if it were just the sound of the wind or the shaking of the branches and leaves of this tree.

After a long time, he heard a sound.

"Third Shixiong bro..."

Vague and unclear, as if speaking in a jar from a long distance away.

Only then did Lin Jue walk out of the tree.

The world in front of his eyes and in his ears became clear instantly. He saw the mountain forest blooming, the sun shining on the stone mountain, a figure with its back to him turning its head to look around, and heard the wind and the still-present faint buzzing of bees, and of course, that vague voice calling for senior brother.

This spell is really easy to use.

Lin Jue looked back at the ancient tree, very satisfied.

"Third Shixiong bro..."

The voice was a little louder, but why is it still unclear?

"Over here!"

Lin Jue picked up the honey and shouted.

The junior sister turned around, her face already swollen, but she looked unconcerned:

"Third Shixiong bro, where did you hide?"

"Yeah, why did you get stung like this?"

"I don't know! I originally wanted to, I thought if I turned into stone I wouldn't be stung, but I turned into stone and waited for a long time, and they didn't sting..." the junior sister said as she walked over.

"It's okay, we have Fifth Third Third Shixiong."

"That's what I thought too!"

"Let's go……"

"Is it enough? If not, I'll go steal more..."

"Enough, enough!"

"Hope it tastes good~"

The junior sister took the honey and banana leaves from his hand.

Lin Jue thought and said, "Come to think of it, I seem to have seen dove leaves on the way here."

"What are dove leaves?"

"Haven't you eaten dove tofu? It's also called Immortal Tofu, Guanyin Tofu."

"Never have..."

The junior sister turned her head to look at him while holding the honey.

"Dove leaves are the leaves of a wild grass. Wash them clean, mash them into a pulp, filter them out with gauze, add a little wood ash water, and let them sit for a while, and they will turn into something like tofu," Lin Jue also tried his best to describe it to her while walking. "It tastes more like a herbal jelly. You can mix it with soy sauce and vinegar to make it savory, or you can mix it with honey and osmanthus to make it sweet."

"What is herbal jelly?"

"It's about the same as grass jelly."

"What is grass jelly?"

"……"

Lin Jue had forgotten—

Perhaps there were already snacks like grass jelly and dove tofu in this era, but his junior sister came from a rural background and lived a very bitter life, so she might not have eaten them.

And even if such snacks existed, they should be more common in prosperous places like the capital.

"It's okay, I'll make it for you."

"Okay!"

The junior sister nodded and said.

The two walked back with the honey. A white shadow flashed beside them, but it was a yaoguai fox that jumped out from somewhere, leaping nearly two zhang away as if it had no weight, and returned with them.

From time to time, it turned its head to look at the junior sister curiously.

Thinking about who this person is...